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You focused your business in Russia with intention then?

If so, it seems strange to give them focus, then take the service away because of what their government that they have no control over has done.

If not, then why the inconsistent policies with Russian citizens vs Chinese citizens?

Either way, I don't support involving citizens if it can be avoided. Oligarchs I could understand, similar to the state sanctions, but everyday citizens doesn't make sense.

I do use you guys, but I'll be moving as I don't want my domain provider in any political events or targeting citizens. It's a shame because your bitcoin support was nice.

Russian developers are already having bank account issues, now you spring this on them. It's really not helping the situation. They have nothing to do with these events. You're disconnecting them from the world further.

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>Russian developers are already having bank account issues, now you spring this on them. It's really not helping the situation. They have nothing to do with these events. You're disconnecting them from the world further.

This is the point.

In a war, most of the people that end up fighting are innocent to some extent. This is economic warfare. This is Namecheap's volley.

By definition a civilian is not fighting. This policy mainly hurts civilians and doesn't harm the regime at all. Namecheap's "volley" is virtue signaling and exploiting an event at the expense of it's innocent Russian customers who trusted their brand. Why not just target oligarchs like other sanctions?

Simply donating to charities helping in the conflict would help the world a lot more and you could still write your blog post if you wanted. I guess going after the customers you collected is more viral though.

>By definition a civilian is not fighting.

They might not be bearing arms, but they are contributing to the russian economy.

Without the presence of nuclear weapons, NATO forces would be bombing moscow right now, causing significantly more economic disruption and disruption to civilians.

It's war.

>They might not be bearing arms, but they are contributing to the russian economy.

I didn't realize we were in a total war. What's next? Drone strikes so the "economy" shrinks?

NATO members can not risk drone striking Russian territory due to the risk of a nuclear war.

Without nukes Moscow would be under heavy bombing right now

> They might not be bearing arms, but they are contributing to the russian economy.

First, that's a very weak justification to attack civilians. Second, how does stopping them from paying for a non-local service help?

> Without the presence of nuclear weapons, NATO forces would be bombing moscow right now, causing significantly more economic disruption and disruption to civilians.

I doubt it, there's a reason Ukraine isn't in NATO, but thank God for nuclear deterrence. I don't want WW3, some people seem to be jumping at the bit for it.

> It's war.

Not ours. I support aid, nothing else.

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> It's causing a disruption and lessening the productivity of the Russian economy

No it's not, if anything now more Russians will go to domain providers based in their country, keeping the money in their economy.

> If you're Russian. It is your war.

I'm not Russian. I'm not Ukrainian. Therefore it's not my war.

It's causing a disruption and lessening the productivity of the Russian economy

>Not ours. I support aid, nothing else.

If you're Russian. It is your war.

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